22 - Sunday, August 22, 1993 - North Shore News Flea market in Lower Lonsdale area already under way with much to offer GST, a handy small coffee shop, and every inch of a LOST IN THE JUNGLE? Now that you have passed your REAL ESTATE EXAM, are you LOST as to where to turn for the TRAINING AND SUPPORT that you need to put it to work? Don't feel lost ... Come to THE company whose TRAINING AND SUPPORT are the foundation of SUCCESS both THE VINTAGE YEARS IT TOOK me long enough to find it. I’d seen ads for months, _ and whenever I walked down to the Quay I’d study the Versatile buildings for signs of any suggestion that there was a market going on in there. _ Blank. What were they talking about? But a couple of weeks ago, having done my Quay cruising, I thought I’d _maybe walk back up Lons- dale just to see if I could. I got as far as the bench ad- jacent to Paine’s Hardware before J admitted I couldn’t, and sat down to wait for the bus. Fate, you see, because there was the sign for the flea-market. J should have been looking at the north side of Esplanade in a big old warehouse sort of _: building, facing Versatile’s ‘properties. There’s a sign on the pole at the corner, and a ° big sign on the side of the ‘ building itself. ‘I’d been way off track. . So I told myself I’d go around there soon. Just days later, a chap left a message at the News for me — “please come and see what we’re doing at the flea market.’’ You see? There are forces at work that we wot not. — It’s a Saturday-and- Sunday thing, 50 cents ad- mission at the doorx, no A & mucl huge space chock-full of entertainment and reminiscence. Man, there’s stuff in there ~~ well, I can only tell you to go yourself. You'll see utensils and toys and ornaments and furniture that will take you back to your very begin- nings. Cut glass, coin collec- tions, a copper clothes boiler, a 100-year-old rocking chair, figurines of great variety, a treadle sew- ing machine, a hall stand with a mirror and a marble shelf for the mail. Remember the fancy little lamps ladies used to have at either side of the dresser? The desk set with a well for ink? Those horse-hide tub chairs that were lounging equipment for beer parlors? . . Ican’t begin to give vou “any overall inventory. There are things on shelves, things hanging from beams, things on racks, on hooks, in boxes, on tables. There are some specialists who deal only in books, or model trains and cars and trucks, or artificial flowers or sports equipment. You can buy an awl ora pair of shoes or a dress or a skateboard or an an- timacassar or a moustache cup. Some carry new things. Marked down, of course. But you have to see it. The young man Chris, who is its moving force, says he still has available tables starting at 10 dollars a day. And he’s full of ongoing plans that include expanding into the upper floors, put- ting in a miniature railway to carry kids around, decor- ating the wall facing Lons- dale with the kind of mural Chemainus did, perhaps depicting the days when the tall ships brought exotic cargo to Moodyville. He’s already invited struggling artists to take the , rear 9 S, cruise air, | P/M, tit, deluxe sound sysiem h more. *$3,000 down, $10,600 read, plas toms, OAC. ht He’ S got very flexible, imaginative plans?9 outside wall space facing Lonsdale as their free display gallery. He’s made a point of using as much salvageable material as possible from the original building, and is planning to raise an oversize Canadian flag pointing the way for SeaBus crossers. At present he employs a jester to guide those visiiors up to the building. He’s got very flexible, imaginative plans. Much of the early renovation was done by himself, in odd hours from his day job, and he swears that in the midnight quiet he could hear the men who worked there years and years ago, talking about their families and their am- bitions for their town. In amongst the inevitable litter he came upon a framed photograph of the staff of Ridgeway School in 1922. There’s the principal in the middle, Mr. John Bennett, surrounded by 13 pretty young women. I copied a couple of the names, Marie Freaser and Molly Hutchison and Grace Patrick, which had been carefully listed on the back in perfect schoolteacher Maclean’s Method script. Someone might like to see that photograph again. Just ask for Chris. When you go down ~ hours are 3:30.a.m, to 4:30 p.m., the telephone number is 986-FLEA — take some - of those plastic bags you’ve got stashed. Every vendor needs carry bags, and they try to recycle everything. Even music. I heard The Sheik of Araby the morning I did my first prowl. 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